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End the NSA dragnet (Op-Ed from Jenny Beth Martin and Alex Abdo)
Around 1:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 23, there was a seismic shift in the U.S. Congress. As the Senate deadlocked over what to do about several expiring provisions of the Patriot Act, it became clear that political momentum had moved away from surveillance and secrecy toward freedom and privacy... Continue here.
Choosing between Big Brother and the Bill of Rights (Op-ed in Los Angeles Times by Jenny Beth Martin and Alex Abdo of the ACLU)
Around 1:30 a.m. Saturday, there was a seismic shift in the U.S. Congress. As the Senate deadlocked over what to do about several expiring provisions of the Patriot Act, it became clear that political momentum had moved away from surveillance and secrecy toward freedom and privacy... Continue here.
Area Tea Party Gets Legislative Overview (Temple Daily Telegram – Alex Wukman)
The fight over immigration has not gone away was the message Maria Acosta, the Texas representative for Tea Party Patriots and the president of the Central Texas 9-12 Project, gave to the members of the Central Texas Tea Party at their Tuesday night meeting, attended by about 30 people.
The group invited Acosta to provide an overview of bills pending in Congress that have drawn the attention of conservative groups... Continue here.
Tea Party Patriots Weekly Report from Washington for 5/15/16
CALENDAR:
The House comes back into session on Monday, May 16, and will be in session through Thursday, with last votes expected no later than 3 PM.
The Senate will return to session on Monday, May 16, and will be in session through Friday.
LAST WEEK ON THE HOUSE FLOOR:
The House came back into session on Tuesday, and took up 21 bills under Suspension. But I’m going to skip most of what happened on the House floor last week, because the only thing of great significance that happened was the consideration and passage of a dozen and a half different but related measures, all dealing with various aspects of the nation’s ...
Tea Party Patriots Weekly Report from Washington for 5/01/16
CALENDAR:
The House and Senate have both gone into recess. The Senate will return on Monday, May 9, while the House will return on Tuesday, May 10.
LAST WEEK ON THE HOUSE FLOOR:
The House returned last Monday, and immediately went to work on 19 bills on the Suspension Calendar.
On Wednesday, the House took up and passed H.R. 4923, the American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act, under Suspension of the Rules. MTB officially stands for “Miscellaneous Tariff Bill,” but House Republicans have unofficially renamed it “Manufacturing Tax Breaks.” The bill streamlines the process to allow manufacturing companies to cut costs on ...
Tea Party Patriots Weekly Report from Washington for 4/17/16
CALENDAR:
The House will come back into session on Monday, and stay in session through Thursday.
The Senate will come back into session on Monday, and stay in session through Friday.
LAST WEEK ON THE HOUSE FLOOR:
The House began its week on Monday, with nine bills on the Suspension Calendar, and three bills brought to the floor under Rules – H.R. 3791, to raise the consolidated assets threshold under the small bank holding company policy statement; H.R. 3340, the Financial Stability Oversight Council Reform Act; and H.R. 2666, No Rate Regulation of Broadband Internet Access.
On Wednesday, the House took up five more bills under the ...
Tea Party Patriots Weekly Report from Washington for 3/20/16
CALENDAR:
The House returns Monday, and will be in session through Wednesday. Then they’ll break for the Easter recess, and will not return until Tuesday, April 12.
The Senate is now in recess for the Easter break, and won’t come back into session until Monday, April 4. I apologize for my error last week, when I said the Senate wouldn’t be coming back until April 12.
LAST WEEK ON THE HOUSE FLOOR:
The House began its week Monday, taking up 14 bills on the Suspension Calendar. We discussed two of these bills briefly last week – H. Con. Res. 121, expressing the sense of Congress “condemning the gross ...
Poll: Americans don’t want Obama to bypass Congress on immigration
A new Rasmussen poll shows voters are dissatisfied with Obama’s unilateral approach to granting amnesty to 5 million illegal immigrants.
The Washington Examiner has the details:
"Voters aren't happy," said Rasmussen's Alex Boyer in a video poll release. "Voters are clear: They don't want the president using executive orders to go around Congress," she added.
Take gun control. She said that just one-third believe Obama should go it alone.
But it's worse with immigration. "That's more support for executive action than the president gets regarding his plan to exempt up to five million illegal immigrants from deportation. Just 26 percent think ...
Tea Party Patriots Weekly Report from Washington for 1/10/16
CALENDAR:
The House returns Monday, and will stay in session through Wednesday. Then House Republicans will travel to Baltimore for their annual retreat, where, if all goes as planned, they’ll hear from Jordan’s King Abdullah as their keynote speaker on Wednesday night.
The Senate will come back into session on Monday to vote on a judicial nominee, then will stay in session until Wednesday, at which point Senate Republicans will join their House counterparts in Baltimore.
The President will give his final State of the Union address on Tuesday evening at 9 PM. Governor Nikki Haley of South Carolina will give the official Republican ...